ISTA International Sessions

The Actor's Know-How

Personal Paths, Techniques and
Visions

in collaboration with the Cultural
Association Diaforà and Teatro tascabile di Bergamo

Avoid main roads

Follow small paths

Pythagoras

With

Parvathy Baul (India)

I Wayan Bawa (Bali)

Keiin Yoshimura and So Sugiura
(Japan)

Teatro tascabile di Bergamo (Italy)

Odin Teatret (Denmark)

The 15th session of ISTA - The International School of
Theatre Anthropology - will take place in Albino (Italy) during the
period 7-17 April 2016. Its theme is: The Actor's
Know-How: Personal Paths, Techniques and Visions.

Masters from different theatre and dance traditions, in
collaboration with Eugenio Barba, will introduce the participants
to the pre-expressive level of their styles, i.e.,the level of
scenic presence. The technical principles which govern the craft of
an actor/dancer are never present in a pure state, but always
appear in the guise of a style. When the guises belong to styles
and traditions which are foreign to us, there is the danger that
these principles can remain hidden from us because of the
strangeness of the form which contains them. When the guises are
familiar to us, it is this very familiarity which weakens our
attention. An actor/dancer's first days of apprenticeship are
decisive. It is on this threshold that the principles of scenic
presence meet.

In the 15th session of ISTA, theatre and dance masters from
different traditions will go through the first steps of their
apprenticeship. In the course of the day they will exemplify,
through demonstrations and practical work, how they learned and
personalised their specific technique. The participants will have
the opportunity to experience the "first day" while becoming aware
of the principles which give life to the physical/mental know-how
of an actor/dancer.